To the Editor:
In her guest commentary of September 6th referring to villages raising children, writer Anne Lazurko took issue with the then Minister of Education, Dustin Duncan. She assumed simply because he was Christian, that he let his religious beliefs guide his decisions, and that to do so was wrong. Duncan required schools to keep parents fully informed of name and pronoun changes of children and teachings on sexuality.
All religions provide moral teachings as to what is right and wrong, and it would be hypocritical to not let your personal beliefs guide you in making your decisions.
Most religions have guided cultures for 1,500 to 4,000 years and have survived because religions and cultures were mostly based upon the natural law and were found to be long lasting, tried, and true.
While the village can indeed influence how a child is raised, the influence of the village can be good or bad, depending upon whether the inhabitants have good or bad morals. That in turn depends upon how often they take the time to worship God with others and accept teachings on morality, and especially sexual morality.
Fortunately, an Angus Reid poll reported that over 82 per cent of parents approve of the new policy.
In the 1930’s an anthropologist from Oxford University, Dr. J.D. Unwin, in his 1934 treatise “Sex and Culture”, observed that when families and sexual morality decline, so does the culture. This was written before the sexual revolution and Unwin studied cultures that imploded over the ages.
If it’s not God and religion that guides decision makers, then it is everyone in the village deciding for themselves what is right and wrong. Without any common moral foundation, it becomes mob rule, and what is taught becomes detached from morality.
Villages that do not have a religion to guide them, are prone to believe almost anything … including the ability of children to change their sex and gender!
Tom Schuck, Weyburn
